Apta - The Pool

The Pool represents Apta's most focused and compelling release to date. Based on the transformative plunge of a psychedelic experience, it maps both tentative footsteps into the unknown and euphoric, melodic bliss.

Recorded using a combination of modular synthesis, Arp Odyssey, bass, guitar, Elektron grooveboxes and (for the first time in Apta's recorded history) a hint of vocals. There are
wisps of melody from the outset, woven through skittering modular synths and saturated bass guitar. But it's on the post-rock indebted 'Shiver' and follower 'Awash' that Apta's distinctive mix of ambient music and flourishing melody take the fore.

We also get some more off-piste excursions, widening the boundaries of Apta's already diverse sound and resulting in an album that falls somewhere in the middle ground between post-rock, pop ambient and kosmische, and the first 2025 release from Castles in Space